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> Remember also that Matt recently shot Reno for performance
> reasons

Actually, it was turned back on less than 72 hours later, when he
found/fixed a bug in NewReno.  It was only off for a little bit, and
only in -stable.

, when compared to Linux, when he should probably have
> simply cranked initial window size to 3 (Jacobson) and added
> piggy-back ACKs (Mogul).

See above.  You need to pay more attention to what's going on. :)


Nate

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